For the last 45 years the US has targeted Cuba with psychological warfare and blasted the peaceful island nation with high powered radio waves in violation of international law. Total cost to US tax payers is hundreds of millions of dollars.

Stimulating parts of the brain with electrodes can change a patient’s blood pressure, researchers have found. The saner and permanent treatment of neurofeedback (brain-wave training) has shown the same effects.

Life on Earth is in the throes of a new wave of mass extinction, unlike anything since the demise of the dinosaurs. In the last 500 years, 844 species are known to have died out, and up to 16,000 others are now known to be threatened.

The last bit of track has been completed and soon the world’s highest altitude railroad will be open. It will bring Tibet closer to the outside world and a flood of Chinese immigrants. Can the Tibetan culture survive?

The criminals in Washington are working hard for their dark lord. This time they have they have stolen the map that legally defined the Artic National Wildlife Refuge so that they could create a new one, without vast protected tracts.

Cambodia has one of the least diversified economies in the world. No longer wanting to be dependent upon the slave wages paid by the garment industry, it has decided to focus on the lucrative business of organic farming.

If you ever give to a charity, please, please don’t give a dime to the Red Cross. In reality the organization is not an independent ‘charity’ organization but an extension of the worst parts of the US government that sucks up funding better used by real charities and steals much of the funds it gets.

Americans respond in anger and sadness at the number of US soldiers who have been killed in Iraq, yet few Americans consider how many Iraqis have been killed nor do they consider the fact that the overwhelming majority killed by their tax dollars are children and civilians.

Earlier this year France mandated that French history books present a positive but inaccurate picture of its colonial past that included horrific crimes against humanity. “Morally, the law is shameful,” said University of Paris history professor Claude Liauzu.

Water is an increasingly precious resource and there is a global operation to put public water sources under the control of criminal corporations, who start poisoning the water with the toxin fluoride.

Canadians brought charges against Bush for torture when he visited Canada last year but the charges were struck down by a Supreme Court judge and a gag order put in place. The case is getting another hearing next month.

‘Geoengineering’ is one of the words used for techniques being proposed more and more frequently by scientists and commercial journalists as a ‘politically realistic’ remedy for climate change. However, no one is yet talking about real solutions.

While the debate about global warming goes on, little mention is ever made of the greatest cause of global warming – methane. Nor is mention made of how easy it would be to stop excess methane production.

With his earlier war lies exposed, Bush now says that the war on the people of Iraq must continue indefinitely because of the presence of foreign Islamic fighters – even though there are hardly any and would leave when the US leaves.

Justice is slow or non-existent in Latin America but there may be hope. Long shielded by the US from justice, Chile’s former military dictator and mass murderer, Augusto Pinochet, has been stripped of his immunity from prosecution for embezzlement charges.

With all of its social programs and free health care, Canada has a healthy economy and a budget surplus. It is the only country in the Group of Seven to record an annual budget surplus – something it’s had for the last eight fiscal years.

If you eat beef, the answer is most likely yes. Even if the meat doesn’t come from countries with rain forests it is likely that the animals were fed genetically engineered soy beans grown on land cleared from rain forest.

Most of us don’t really know much about where flu comes from or what causes it. But, there is a solution that would wipe out virtually all flu and make the world a much better place. Can you guess what it is?

Percy Schmeiser, the celebrated Canadian farmer whose legal fight with Monsanto Corp. brought the plight of family farmers to the world stage, is now helping educate citizens of Sonoma County on the hazards of genetically engineered crops.

America is the world’s biggest police state with 25% of the world’s prisoners but only 5% of the population. Many of the prisoners are used as virtually free labor for large corporations. Many of the prisoners are innocent of any crimes.

In a world of plenty, famine still exists due to the foreign policies of the US and European countries and the World Trade Organization. The Oakland Institute has released their new Roadmap to End Hunger which exposes the true cause of hunger and real solutions.

We’ve all heard the adage, “the truth is out there”, pertaining to UFO’s and aliens. In fact, most people also understand the statement’s implication that our government has been conspiring, for decades, to cover up evidence of the existence of such.

Forward this – Did you know that Email is used to spread disinformation for the evil empire? A bogus Email about Iraq has been circulating for the last couple of years that avoids mentioning the truth about Iraq and spreads a whole of lot of half-truths and lies.

There was no cheering, no chanting and no sign waving. The march organized by Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh brought together 3,000 people to enjoy an unusual state in this city — silence.

A European satellite that was to have helped understand global warming by scanning the thickness of polar ice sheets has crashed into the Arctic Ocean after its Russian launcher failed. Was the failure deliberate?

The Transportation Security Administration has admitted that it “does not have the capability to perform a simple computer-based search” to locate individual records to reveal why people are being tagged as security threats, yet the secret information is being used to take away basic human rights.

Prior to the invasion of Iraqi women were free to go wherever they wish and wear whatever they like. The 1970 Iraqi constitution, gave Iraqi women equity and liberty unmatched in the Muslim World. The evil empire of Bush is robbing Iraqi women of even the most basic freedoms.

Something remarkable is happening in Venezuela. For the first time, the President has challenged the business elite head-on, fighting – and winning to recapture the national oil wealth from a tiny elite and put it to use for the benefit the poor majority.

Cubans marking the 29th anniversary of an airliner bombing that killed 73 people expressed frustration and sadness yesterday at the fact that CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is still being shielded from justice by the US.

In an attempt to show that they are not all entirely corrupt and evil, US Senators voted on an ammendment to ban Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of prisoners, even though existing laws already prohibit such activity but are ignored. 90 voted for the ammendment and 9 against. Bush has vowed to veto it.

Back in April Bush quietly signed an executive order for the imprisonment of anyone suspected of merely having the flu, now he has said that he will use the military to enforce it. In the last year Bird flu has killed less than 100 people world-wide. Smoking killed over 10 million.

The Bush Monkies have the answer for energy conservation with a new cartoon character called “Energy Hog”. The hog will help Duhmerikan’s feel good about high energy prices without anyone really doing anything about conserving energy or price fixing.

Soaring obesity rates may be shortening the lives of Ontario’s children and could result in the first generation of young people who won’t live as long as their parents, the Ontario Medical Association warned Tuesday

The Philadelphia District Attorney has released the Grand Jury Report and its files on the case against Priests who molested minors. Catholics who are unaware of the true nature of their church should read the full report. It is shocking to even non-catholics.

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